"When you enter into your class that will be about 18 people big, you will come face to face with a professor who most likely holds a terminal degree in their field (usually a PhD). These professors are quite literally top experts in the field that that they all so passionately teach about and we, with our small classes sizes and 9:1 student to faculty ratio, get to learn directly from them"
Check out more from a post by recent anthropology alum Chloe Serkissian '18: Faculty: They're Just Like Us! (Only with PhDs) then check out all our Faculty bios below!
Faculty
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz 2008)
Specialties: Environmental Anthropology, Environmental History, Science Technology Studies, Political Ecology, Sustainability, Animal Studies, Postsocialist Anthropology, Forest and Conservation Management, Peasant Studies
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 2014)
Specialties: Cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ethnographic methods, and the anthropology of digital media.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. Columbia University 2017)
Specialties: economic anthropology, anthropology of the future, anthropology of expertise, science and technology studies, social studies of the economy, anthropological theory, Greece, Europe, EU.
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Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1992)
Specialties: Anthropology and history, ethnicity, kinship and social organization, anthropology of religion; China, Tibeto-Burman peoples.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. Syracuse University 2006)
Specialties: Medical Anthropology, Urban Studies, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Women’s Health, HIV/AIDS, Health Services Research, Program Evaluation Studies; North America.
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Department Chair and Professor (Ph.D. Syracuse University 2003)
Specialties: Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes; Urban United States (New York City); medical anthropology; science studies; applied anthropology; history of anthropology; ethnographic methods; migration and transnationalism; indigenous identity and activism.
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Professor Emeritus and Research Associate, Anthropology, Whitman College and Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, San Diego State University
Specialties: Near Eastern prehistoric archeology, prehistoric religion; Jordan, Saudi Arabia.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Politics
Özge Serin is a political anthropologist and an emerging documentary filmmaker. Her scholarship centers around histories of radical politics, formations of violence, and carceral cultures with a particular focus on the temporal structure of hunger striking, its modes of strategic functioning, its communicative force and ethical vicissitudes.
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Lecturer of Anthropology, Environmental Studies and Religion
Specialties: Religion in American Indian nations, ethnography, settler colonial studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, anthropology and religion, borderlands, diaspora, religion and the environment.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religion (PhD, University of Chicago 2017)
Specialties: China and Chinese diaspora; anthropology of global Christianity, religion and politics, anthropology of the state, urbanization in East Asia, Post-Socialism.